Cash and package carrier



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No. 553,548. Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

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CASH AND PACKAGE CARRIER.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY M. IVEAVER AND SAMUEL W. BARR, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

CASH-AND PACKAGE CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,548, dated January 28 1896. Application filed November 6, 1894. Renewed July 3, 1895. Serial No. 554,892. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY M. WEAVER and SAMUEL W. BARR, of Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Package Carriers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in cash and package carriers, the object being to provide a low level package-carrier adapted for use where it is not necessary or desirable to raise the basket to the car, and a further object is to provide a latch which enables the operator with one hand to open and lower the basket.

With these ends in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation. Figs. 2, 3 and dare detail views of the latch.

A represents the car, and Bis a basket, the bail 1 of which is pivoted directly to the car, as at 2. This being designed as a low level package-carrier, it is not necessary to make provision for lowering the basket, except to open and lower one end, hence the permanent connection with the car. As an easement for the basket when suddenly stopped, in addition to its pivotal connection with the car, a spiral spring 3 is interposed between the car and the bail 1 of the basket at each side of the pivot of the latter. are preferably mounted loosely on rods 4 4, hinged at their lower ends to the bail and passed loosely through holes '5 5 in the car.

By means of this instrumentality the inertia imparted to the basket is counteracted and the basket is retained in its normal position.

The basket is hinged at one end to the bail, its other end being connected to the bail by a latch. The construction of this latch is such that by turning'the same the latch is opened and the basket swings down allowing the easy removal or placing within of the These springs packages. The bail is provided at its free end with a fork 6, the tines of which curve outwardly to receive the stop 7 on the basket between them. One or both of these tines are provided with inclined inner edges 8 8, and shoulders 9 9 are formed at a point opposite the stop 7 when the parts are latched.

O is the latch. This is secured on the upper end of a rock-bar 10 by means of a pin 11, which protrudes from the latch and constitutes a stop adapted to strike a similar pin latter to spring over a shoulder 9 on one of the fork-tines and lock the parts together. A handle 15 on the lower end of this rock-bar is on a level within reach of the operator, and when turned to unlatch the basket is also used as a handle to lower the latter to empty or fill the basket.

Slight modifications might of course be made in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention, and hence we do not wish to limit ourselves to the precise construction herein set forth; but,

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a car, and a basket the bail of which is pivoted thereto, of a pair of rods pivoted to the bail of the basket, said rods located one on each side of the pivot of the bail and passing loosely through holes in the car, and a spiral spring loosely mounted on each of the rods between the car and the bail, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the bail of a basket having a fork thereon, said fork having an inclined inner edge and a shoulder thereon, of a stop on the basket adapted to be received between the tines of the fork, said stop having a pin thereon, a latch having a rounded or beveled corner, a pin on the catch adapted to strike the pin on the stop and limit the turn of the latter in one direction, a rock-bar to which the latch is connected, and {L handle on the lower end of the rock-bar, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY M. WEAVER. SAMUEL \V. BARR.

\Vitnesses:

O. M. FARBER, C. \V. BARBER. 

